Roundhouse Detail Shots – San Francisco Trains

The following shots of the Roundhouse were taken in January of 2010.

A view of the east partition. Note the monitor roof over stall 40 and the wall separating it from the rest; stall 40 became the locomotive paint booth at some point. Stall 39 was converted to floor space for machinery and/or employee lockers in later years, hence the wall in place of a door.

This door on the back of stall 37 was one of the Roundhouse’s two original rear doors. The track continued out through the back of the Roundhouse to the Backshop’s transfer table.

The door on stall 36 was added later in the Roundhouse’s life to allow longer locomotives to clear the turntable-facing door. Note the patched-in brickwork near the hinges.

Some stalls featured personnel access doors on the rear face, such as stall 34 shown here.

Stall 40 also had a small access door on the back. In the years since the Roundhouse’s abandonment, the paint booth has become the painted booth, with many spent cans of spray paint being thrown into the still-intact inspection pit.

Peering through a rear window into the west partition, showing the extent of damage to the support timbers.

A chimney vent over a stall in the east partition. Steam locomotives would be parked in the Roundhouse so that their stacks were under these vents, allowing them to be fired up in the stall without filling the place with smoke.

We aren’t sure when this notice was added, but it was most likely after the nearby Tank & Boiler Shop was sold off to another owner (property lines and all that).